Re: huawei

[Tom Taylor <tom.taylor.stds () gmail com>]

Disclosure: I've been consulting to a group in Huawei for six years, 
ever since I retired from Nortel. I have seen no sign of anything except 
competent gathering of competitive information at meetings, the same as 
we did at Nortel. I would not have expected to see anything else, of course.

As a Canadian, I cast a somewhat skeptical eye on claims of Huawei being 
a particular security hazard. My personal view, without any evidence 
outside of the newspapers, is that the claims are commercially and 
politically motivated. I note that Cisco equipment, for instance, is 
also manufactured in China, but no one has taken that any further.

The IPR scandal is twenty years in the past, now. I've watched my own 
group mature and visited their Shenzhen campus of 10,000-plus engineers 
from time to time, and I would say that Huawei is well able to generate 
their own technology these days.

It's fun to speculate on how one might insert back doors in products, 
but I'm not sure there's reason to tie such speculation to particular 
vendors.

Tom Taylor